Big government advocates fail to see, or ignore the fact, that in a free market it's not only the rich getting richer, but the poor as well. They fixate on the widening income disparity between the rich and poor and fail to see the big picture. If a poor person's income grows 10% and a rich person's grows 10% then of course there is a widening income disparity. If there was no federal reserve and we went back to the gold standard then inflation would be kept in check as well.


Regarding the hippy comment, read Dr. Ben Carson's New book One Nation. He has an interesting take on that rather early in the book.

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